Dianna Woolley

ABSTRACT ARTIST, PHILANTHROPIST – BUILDING LEGACY

Woolley’s work is fueled by artistic curiosity, dedicated studio practice and challenges offered by tutors, peer mentorship and workshop participation. With her current principal mediums being acrylic and oil, the artist produces color filled paintings playing with and painting non-representational images. Woolley’s intent is to lure viewers into hearing the work’s call and emotionally drawing them into her one-of-a-kind image.

Dianna is interested in art sales and gallery representation for her work. However, her sales goals are a means to an end, that end being an ability to give back to other artists, practicing, beginning, even established artists. Her long-term goal is to fund a foundation for assisting others in their pursuit of art albeit grant money, residency funding, art supplies. In 2023 Woolley matched a fund-raising grant with the Williamsburg Contemporary Art Center, as well as contributed 100% of the funds she raised in an online event of 20 small paintings to aid the community of Lahaina, HI in their fire recovery efforts.

In her studio practice, Woolley revels in the challenge and creative expansiveness of random marks on bare canvas. To expand her dedication to painting and to freshen both palette and technique, Dianna has participated in month-long residencies, October 2016 and ‘17 at the NISDA (Nantucket Island School of Design and Art), and 2018, when she was awarded a 3-week residency by the International Encaustic Artists organization to Castle Hill Arts Center’s Edgewood Farm, Truro, MA.

Dianna Woolley is a Kipaipai Fellow having participated in juried professional artist retreats on the Big Island, HI, 2017, and Rensselaer, NY, 2019, at the Carey Institute for Global Good.  In 2020-23, she was a founding partner of the private business/collective gallery Combine Art Collective in Walla Walla, WA. In 2021-22, she was a member of The Painting Center in Chelsea, NY City, a non-profit gallery of professional artists founded in 1993.

Woolley’s work has been exhibited in multiple solo, invitational and juried exhibits in the Pacific NW and can be seen online at diannawoolley.com and CombineArtCollective.com. In addition, her work is shown in the Williamsburg, VA, businesses of Nurtured Notion Home Design and the Downtown Gallery/Ryan Eure Designs. She is an award-winning member of the Williamsburg Contemporary Art Center as well as the Crossroads Center of the Arts in Richmond. Her work is in private collections across the country, and also in the MOAH (The Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA) Fine Art Collection.